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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A difficult or embarrassing problem or situation.
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- noun cricket A
pitch that has becomewet because ofrain and therefore on which the ballbounces unpredictably - noun a
difficult orunpredictable situation .
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